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I have two computers in my setup, one with wireless access to my home network, and the other without. I previously ran windows XP on the computer with the wireless card and bridged the connection with an ethernet card in order to provide network access to my second computer without a wireless card. I am now running Arch on this computer and I can't seem to bridge the wireless and the ethernet cards. I have read that bridging wireless cards in Linux doesn't always work too well so I'm now looking for another option to supply network connectivity to my second computer. Ideally I would like to keep both computers on the same subnet but I'm really not sure what my options are. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Bridging works fine in Linux, and it's your only option if you want everything on one subnet. It would seem that it's not a very popular topic among Archers i.e. nothing in the wiki , but there are plenty of howtos out there. First step - install the bridge-utils package and read man brctl.
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I've got bridge-utils installed and have already tried using brctl to setup the bridge, but once I do this my wireless card no longer connects to my wireless network and DHCP doesn't work. Any suggestions?
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I think my original post may have been confusing so here is a diagram of what I'm trying to do:
[inksys router] <--------------------> ath0 [archlinux box] eth0 <------------------------------->eth0[Debian box]
192.168.0.1 wi-fi link DHCP assigned crossover cable 192.168.0.30 (static ip for port forwarding reasons)
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